Rooting for a different team?

One of the fastest ways to lose my respect as a sports fan is if you tell me your a “fan” of two different teams in the same sport. “If you have two favorite teams it means your not really a fan of either” is my go to response when people tell me they’re a fan of more then one team.

I learned this at a young age you cant root for more than one team when up until I was about six when asked who my favorite NFL team was I would respond “the Giants and Eagles(first time I’ve ever openly admitted that).” When I realized I was committing the cardinal sin of sports fandom I swore my allegiance to the Giants and have never regretted it.

screenshot of me pledging my undivided fanhood to the Seahawks for the playoffs

But I’ve always said I think there’s one exception to the rule, if your team is eliminated from playoff contention, you should be able to pick one team to root for throughout the playoffs. Not a team to stick with past the playoffs, pretty much just a rebound team since your real team just broke your heart.

After the Giants virtually self destructed over the last two weeks making there playoff chances highly unlikely, I decided my playoff team would be the Seattle Seahawks. I would never root for them over the Giants, or even over a team with a former Notre Dame player leading them (still hoping Brady Quinn becomes a permanent starter somewhere).

The Seahawks are led by Russell Wilson at quarterback who’s undersized at only 5’10 and fits my general love of short athletes perfectly, have a runningback who eats skittles during games, play physical defense, and have a tendency of running up the score in games that are already blowouts(which I love), they’re the perfect team for me to root for the remainder of the 2012-2013 season.